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"Jean-Marc wants to light it once
and run - once it's lit, you don't get to
change it," says Crawford, who also
teamed with Vallée and Bélanger on
HBO's Big Little Lies. "In this case, he
wanted Amy to be able to start at the
front door and run through the whole
house in a single shot if necessary, so the
lighting had to work for everything.
"It was pretty tricky because the
stage wasn't a normal stage, so it didn't
have perms; everything had to be put on
chain motors and truss," he continues.
"It also had to stay rigged for 20 weeks,
which is a long run. We had to shoot
Amy out first, so we shot four weeks
onstage, then went on location for 10
weeks to finish her scenes, then came
back to the stage.
"For the Translite, we used
Bardwell & McAlister MacTech LEDs.
We hung 960s for toplight and skirted
them with silk that bled into the backing, and then we hung 480s on the other
side to directly hit the back. That took
care of the Translite all the way down.
"To come through every window

Top: Production designer John Paino re-created the mansion's veranda - and built the
complete house interior - onstage at Los Angeles' Occidental Studios. Above: Camille and
Amma converse in a scene shot on the stage set; the backing is visible beyond the veranda
outside the door.

for day scenes, we hung eight Mole
10Ks and six or seven Arri T12s, as well
as some 5Ks up high," adds Crawford.
"All the windows were covered with
sheers."
"Each window had a 'sun' if I
wanted it, and these lights could go up
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or down depending on whether we
were on the first floor or the second,"
says Bélanger. "Jim did a great job."
For night scenes in the set,
Bélanger put a little tungsten moonlight
through the skylight at the top of the
stairs and otherwise relied on practicals,
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